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noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:00 +0000

I recently discovered the band Vampire Weekend where I learn about most things: NPR. This quote resonated with me as I make yet another stylistic shift.

"You know, it's understandable. And we certainly didn't shy away from those things. But every time you make a new record, you have to ask yourself, 'Is that truly the essence of Vampire Weekend?' Now, we kind of feel like we're free from any specific sounds or ideas — that our approach to songwriting, and our approach to making music, we can take to new places."

I love painting. I can see many possibilities, and don't want to be tied down to any one idea. My own statement: I'm this but I'm also that.

Vampire Weekend on NPR May 14, 2013

New Work: Book Series

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:20:00 +0000

Book 1 oil on canvas 24" x 20" 2013

Book 2 oil on Arches oil paper 24" x 18" 2013

Book 3 oil on Arches oil paper 24" x 18" 2013

Book 4 oil on Arches oil paper 24" x 18" 2013

Book 5 oil on Arches oil paper 24" x 18" 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:18:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:50:00 +0000

Press
Examiner.com feature

Paintings and Ceramic Reliefs at the Bowery Gallery, Chelsea

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:56:00 +0000

The show opens today! Please visit the gallery's website for hours. The show runs until March 23, 2013. The public is invited to a reception on Saturday, March 2nd from 4 - 6 p.m.

Bowery Gallery Website

Press Release for "Paintings and Ceramics"

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:45:00 +0000

Nicole Maynard-Sahar: Paintings and Ceramic Reliefs

Press Release

Ranging in size from small to tiny, these abstracted landscapes are constructed of colored dots, staking out a point intriguingly between Pointillist painting and digital technologies. Textural variations within the ceramics create a shifting optical effect evoking the transitory nature of light.

The ceramics are painted with underglaze pastels covered by a glossy, clear glaze. They are pictures as well as objects; clay serves as canvas.

A white stoneware body and irregular edges connote scrimshaw - here, fused with a painter's color sensibility (imagine Bonnard painting on bone).

Such intimacy in reliefs is rare.

Pointillist dots moving through much of the work are much larger and rounder than the traditional form. Each dot is painted freehand. Unlike pixels on a flat field, each dot is a graphic moment in time and space.

Vertical bands bracket a glowing, entrancing center reminiscent of a movie screen, the theater stage, or a window. Curtains pull back to instantly reveal fresh scenery.

Maynard-Sahar’s pictures offer the viewer an emotional lift, a brain hit, as music, drama, and nature do for many people. The artworks are icons of renewal made of color.

“Nicole Maynard-Sahar: Paintings and Ceramic Reliefs” is on view from February 26 - March 23, 2013, at the Bowery Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., 4th floor, New York, NY. The public is invited to an opening reception on March 2 from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Each work is affordably priced at $495. For more information, please call 646.230.6655 or online: http://bowerygallery.org.

A collector/blogger writes about living with my work.

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:21:00 +0000

Square lover learns to enjoy circles.
Flotsam of the Mind: Embracing the Circle

Upcoming

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +0000

Solo Exhibition at the Bowery Gallery, NYC

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Nicole Maynard-Sahar: Paintings and Ceramics
February 26 - March 23, 2013
Bowery Gallery
530 W. 25th Street, 4th flr.
New York, NY 10001

Opening Reception: March 2, 2013, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:25:00 +0000

My painting, Little Girl Blue, was used for a photoshoot in Rochester Woman Magazine. http://www.rochesterwomanmag.com/rwm/?p=1343

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Next up: Solo exhibition at the Bowery Gallery, NYC, February 2013.

Full Version: iPad Project 2011 Culmination/Film

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:33:00 +0000

This film runs a bit slower than a previous version I posted. This is my preferred way for viewing the work. It's too long for YouTube.

iPad Project 2011 Culmination/Film

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:09:00 +0000

Every day of 2011 I created a new artwork using the iPad as a tool. Each image built off of the last. This is a film shows the project as a whole. The viewer may pause to look at individual images longer. As a painter, I was skeptical, hesitant to accept digital art on equal footing as traditional fine art media. Part of the impetus for this project was to determine for myself whether or not it can be art with a capital "A." It can. Digital art is just another medium, and whether or not art is made from it depends on whose hands are involved, just as every tube of oil paint produced doesn't make it into a great painting. Painting does things that digital art can not, and vice versa. The main quality that I love about digital work is the light from the screen, so that the image is illuminated like stained glass. I shall continue to work in both mediums, but will not be posting for a while due to a new project. Enjoy!

iPad Project 12-31-11 Final Image

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:05:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-30-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:32:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-29-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:06:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-28-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:07:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-27-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:29:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-26-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Merry Christmas!

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:04:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-25-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:03:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-24-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:22:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-23-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:38:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-22-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:50:00 +0000

iPad Project 12-21-11

noreply@blogger.com (Nicole Maynard-Sahar) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:57:00 +0000